So You Think You’re Welcoming: 5 Best Principles for Creating Successful Events for Families with Young Children Presenter: Stephanie Fink
Take our welcoming and engagement assessment challenge to see how well you do. Then, we’ll share the 5 best proven principles and the practical steps needed to “ready” your synagogue so that you’re poised to create memorable events that attract young families and build word-of-mouth momentum. This 9:30 am - 10:35 am breakout session is designed for Education Directors, Executive Directors, Clergy, Family Engagement and Membership Professionals.
Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE serves as Associate Director, Family Engagement for the Strengthening Congregations team at the Union for Reform Judaism. Her portfolio includes communities of practice devoted to helping synagogues increase their capacities for effective, meaningful outreach and engagement, curating parenting content for ReformJudaism.org, and managing the PJ Library®-URJ-WRJ Partnership initiative, leveraging the PJ Library brand and tools to help connect FwYC with the Reform movement and its synagogues and camps. Stephanie grew up in the Cleveland area, attended Indiana University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earned her MA at Brandeis as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and served as a congregational educator for ten years before joining the URJ in 2009. She is a former author for Ten Minutes of Torah and recipient of the Legacy Heritage Innovator Award. Stephanie and her husband and children reside in Minneapolis.
This workshop is part of a series of CEELI Boot Camps promoting the engagement of families with young children, sponsored by the Chicago Early Engagement Leadership Initiative (CEELI) - Union of Reform Judaism.